2.70 The New Truth

Now that the scenes from her own life had woven themselves into the tale, Zara was feeling relieved that Neter had gone to investigate. And even though she didn't know who or what to believe, it was becoming increasingly clear too that whatever she believed to be true or false, had to be explored in order to learn if it really was true or false.

         "Some of the rebels were able to learn pieces of the truth" Akku continued, "because they had access to historical records which none of the slaves had access to. These rebels were the Origian Panthers, babies who were born on the Full Moon. Like the Moon, they were the Undead, buried alive, highly educated by Sapparu, their task was to rewrite the history books for the king, and divinate from the astrological alignments in the sky.

         But Sapparu taught them more than the king knew. They discovered ancient stories written in the cave walls where the king never trod, they were the ones who discovered the lies and learned the truth about the great beast that lived in the mountain, just like you did. They learned the truth that the Archonic Star people had created the Anunnaki that destroyed their actual Creator Gods, and transformed their world into the Hellias it had become, while realizing that this Knowledge could help turn it around. Avidly, they deciphered the symbols and translated them onto tablets for secret distribution, hoped this would spread the Knowledge beyond the Panther grottoes, that together they could win Solaria back it's power and return to a Golden Age.

         One by one they leaked the information out to those on the outside, hoping the information would wake the slaves to the Great Big Lie. But the leaks were reported and Atalon learned of the Panther movement, of the Truthers gathering their stories of the ancient past and sharing it with the slaves. Their Knowledge was threatening his control in dangerous ways. Tensions arose quicker than he could harness them. It wasn't long before the Truth Movement mushroomed out of control.

         Suddenly everyone wanted to know The Truth; Was the truth about Aquilla a lie? What had become of the ancient King Sapparu? Who was Elon? Who were the Solarians? What happened to the Nummo? Had anyone actually seen a dogon?"

         Zara found herself staring at Jasun's webbed hands again; she had questions, too.

         "Soon enough the whispers turned vocal" Akku continued. "Conspiracy theories continued to divide social circles, posters began to appear in doorways, in windows and on street poles, 'FREE SAPPARU' slogans were written in the ground, all over town.

         The new Origian Great Teachers were ready to install, but now, Atalon would need to cleanse the city of the Truther unrest, caused by the malfunctioning Origian Panthers. And it wasn't just the slaves who were learning the truth. Atalon didn’t like the things he was learning, either. He didn’t like to learn he was hatched from an egg, he had to get to the bottom of it and eradicate this Knowledge once and for all.

         Atalon knew that old King Sapparu knew the truth about the Phoenix and Archons, how they could be manipulated and pitted against one another in magical ways, was this in fact his doing? He told the old king of his problems and asked him for advice. The old king told him that the slaves needed to know the truth, that they needed love, that Truth and Love would bond them together.

         But then, the Tabloids announced that Sapparu had died a Dishonorable Death. The following week the Truthers mysteriously began disappearing. An Official Investigation dominated the Tabloids for months thereafter. In the end, everyone learned that the Truthers had left the city walls in search of the truth and had been savaged by Aquilla and his savage dogons.

         The slaves grew fearful of the new threat beyond the city walls and the movement simmered down, but the seeds of distrust had been sown. And King Atalon knew exactly what they needed, for Sapparu assured him, the slaves not only needed the truth, they needed Love.

         The next day, the tabloids blamed the Truther lies on Sina the goddess of Love, declaring that it was her love which was false, that it made them spread such evil, and so he sacrificed her in the Grand Courtyard.

         Lea, her sister was furious, she knew the truth and vowed to expose the Big Fat Lie. But because he was a benevolent king, Atalon offered his sincerest condolences to her. With a bottle of his finest wine, he begged for her forgiveness, expressing his sincerest regret, explaining that Sapparu had made him do it. He told her that the king was still alive, that he had been educating him on the real truth, that they had been lied to by Medel, Barduk and Vina, that Sapparu was their real Creator god and it was He who told him that Sina's love was false, knowing she would leak these words to the angry slaves.

         The Origian Great Teachers confirmed that Sapparu was indeed alive! The slaves were horrified. They rose in an angry protest against the cruel King, vowing to free Sapparu from his dungeoness demise.

         But this was exactly what Atalon had orchestrated. Once the Great Teachers had led the protest inside the Grand Courtyard, he locked the gates. Once captured in the courtyard, he threw all the dissenters into the dungeons where they would be tortured along with Sapparu, in whatever way the Firmary required.

         The following day, the Tabloids accused Lea of lying to the people and causing civil unrest. As a punishment the king executed his Anunnaki sister in a grand celebration, banishing her to Hellias forever. With the dissidents buried alive and the Phoenix Anunnaki snuffed out, Atalon felt safe enough to install his first Origian god into the Firmary. Orius, god of Technology had been groomed to be much more than a Great Teacher, his role was to restore some of the trust Atalon had lost from the slaves, he was to be the slave's god."

         "Orius?" Zara echoed, wondering now about dates, this was becoming modern day and still none of it she had heard before. "How old is he?"

         Akku quantified the decades as best he could. "He must be at least two hundred and fifty years old by now."

         "Two hundred and fifty years old?" Zara was shocked! She knew the Origians lived long, but she didn't realize by how much. "Then how old is Atalon?"

         "Who knows… We figure Atalon is thousands of years old" Akku replied. "This whole thing didn't happen overnight you know."

         "Thousands of years old?" Zara couldn't believe it. "No. No way!"

         Akku smiled, they always reacted with disbelief. "Think spiritually rather than physically, although physically they get very old, too. The Anunnaki are like Aquilla; it’s more like, they reproduce themselves, none of us really know or can explain for sure how many times they have reproduced themselves. Somehow they have, there's plenty of evidence they've been with us that long, maybe even longer."